Janet Bray Attwood Shares How to See Every Moment as a Gift
in this Behind the Scenes Video of Janet Recording My Wake UP Call to Passion Mp3 Messages
“Ok, let’s talk about our challenges that we’ve got going. I’m
going to share with you some of my challenges. When I was a little girl, my mom
and I were so close. We were such good friends. And I am talking little, when I was 4 years
old or 5 years old. My mom used to actually not tell the truth and write a note
saying that Janet has to go to the doctor. She used to take me out of school
just so we could play together. And I remember us sitting in the bed and we
would eat fishes in the dishes and sing together and have such a magical time
together. And we were so connected. And then when I was about 8 years old, my
mother started drinking. Her doctor said that when she got cramps that maybe she
should have a little whiskey that that would make her cramps go away. My mother is part Indian and I am not sure if
I buy into the concept that that’s why. But what did happen was she became an
alcoholic. And my whole world cracked. And then when I was 17, I was physically
abused. When I was 18 I was strung out on drugs and I also found myself living
with the President of the Oakland Hell’s Angels.
When you hear about how John Assaraf started out as a gang
member, or how Neal Donald Walsh lived in the streets for some time, or how the
great director David Lynch discovered his passion by seeing how his friend’s
father was able to make a living by being an artist, or how Mark Victor Hansen
survived bankruptcy. It makes you believe that if they can do it, that I can do
it, too, doesn’t it? It’s all a concept.
If you have these limiting beliefs that I can’t do it because, then you will be
right. And that’s what you are going to get.
Now here’s what I’d love you to do today. Make a list of all
of the horrible, terrible dark moments in your life. Now this is just one of
those lists that you will turn around so you can see that every moment is a
gift. No exceptions. Because as I did this little exercise, and I wrote, 'Mother
was an alcoholic.' And I looked for the evidence of how did it serve me. 'Mother
was an alcoholic. How did it serve me?' Well, one of the ways it served me was
that when mother was at alcoholic homes, I would go there and I got a whole club of women
to write letters to the women who were in this home. I learned how to give. How
else did it serve me that mother was an alcoholic? When I meet other alcoholics,
I have so much compassion because I saw that that is a really a tough way to try
to live and be on this planet.
When I was strung out on drugs, how did it serve me? Well, it
serves me in a really great way because I know that I love being clear. So I
don’t even go there. How else does it
serve me? When I meet people who have the challenge of being strung out on
drugs, I actually know what to say to them, I know what they need. I know how
to be with them.
So with you, in your day today, take a little bit of time and
make your list of the awful terrible things that have happened to you and then
find how they have really served you. So that you can start to see that every single
moment is a gift. And as my great friend, Dr. Sue Morter says, 'No exceptions.'"
